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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
3
A health notice extols buro phosphate as a nerve tonic and weight booster. It claims lack of phosphate causes thinness and weak nerves, urging readers to use bitrophoephate sold by druggists to improve energy, complexion, and vitality, while warning to monitor weight.
A national American Legion statement from the New York headquarters urges posts to inform discharged servicemen about help available for war risk insurance allotments Liberty bonds travel pay and bonuses. It notes hundreds helped with final settlements and calls for continued cooperation with government bureaus to expedite claims and payments.
In August 1919 officials report the Alaska salmon run is disasterous with expected pack well below normal across Bristol Bay Bering Sea regions and Puget Sound. Pacific American fisheries president Deming says the failure is widespread and cannery workers are being ferried to Bellingham as ships permit. Some boats have begun returning home ballast as the industry faces its poorest pack in company history.
Paris, Aug. 14. The peace conference awaits Britain's decision on withdrawing troops from the Caucasus. It is hoped the move homeward will begin tomorrow. Col. William Haskell telegraphed that Armenia will starve and its people be exterminated if British soldiers are not kept there until others arrive. The supreme council cannot supply troops and no power is willing to send them, so no action has been taken.
Col Frederick Mears newly named head of the Alaska railroad project and a party of government officials arrived in Seattle to inspect the northern railroad works. Mears will assume charge of construction duties resumed after wartime leave, with Mr Hallowell representing Secretary Law for a month long tour.
Indians residing in Chicago and Indiana plan formal protest against the government opening 14 000 acres of Wind River reservation land in Wyoming to settlement. The statement was made by an Apache leader. Indians nationwide plan a national exhibition in Chicago from September 1 to 15.
The funeral of Andrew Carnegie was held at Shadow Brook in Lenox Massachusetts with a plain service reflecting his tastes. A mixed local and family gathering attended the brief ritual from the New York Presbyterian church with hymns favored by Carnegie and a somber burial train to Sleepy Hollow for interment. Notables present included Charles Schwab and Robert A. Oliver Ricketson, and the service opened with hymns and prayers before concluding with Crossing the Bar.
A report sent to Congress by Secretary Lay finds that more than four grantees over five years failed to construct roads or use land granted to them and recommends action.
Salem dispatch reports 21 year old Chester William Clark who robbed Beaverton bank of 3800 dollars, locked cashier in vault, and fled from the prison farm at noon after prior beaverton thefts. Also notes two other convicts, Dave Brichoux and E B Southwick, still at large from yesterday. Bavarian constitution adopted with dissenting votes, nobility titles abolished rejected, Hunter Liggett assumes Western department command, Morrison to Camp Lewis.
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